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The Roman aqueduct was a channel used to transport fresh water to highly populated
areas. Aqueducts were amazing feats of engineering given the time period. Though
earlier civilizations in Egypt and India also built aqueducts, the Romans improved on the
structure and built an extensive and complex network across their territories. Evidence of
aqueducts remain in parts of modern-day France, Spain, Greece, North Africa, and
Turkey.
The Circus Maximus (Latin for greatest or largest circus; Italian: Circo Massimo) is
an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue located
in Rome, Italy. Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine Hills, it was the
first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire. It measured 621 m
(2,037 ft) in length and 118 m (387 ft) in width and could accommodate over 150,000
spectators.[1] In its fully developed form, it became the model for circuses throughout the
Roman Empire. The site is now a public park.
The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: Via Appia) is one of the earliest and strategically
most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in
southeast Italy.[1] Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded
by Statius:[2][3]
now a church, in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus
Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). It was completed by the
emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD. Its date of construction is
uncertain, because Hadrian chose not to inscribe the new temple but rather to retain the
inscription of Agrippa's older temple, which had burned down.
he Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro
Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important
ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient
city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply
the Forum.